Alvaro La Parra-Perez
Associate Professor of Economics
Contact
Phone: 801-648-9775
Email: laparraperez@weber.edu
Office: Wattis Business Building, Room 242
About
Alvaro La Parra-Perez earned his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland in 2014 and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Weber State University.
His fields of interest are economic history, political economy, and institutional economics. His research focuses on the interaction of politics and economics.
He teaches or has taught courses on the Economic History of the United States, Principles of Microeconomics, Economics as a Social Science, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, and History of Economic Thought. Previously, he also taught American Economic History before the Civil War and Economic History and Modern Development at the University of Maryland.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of Maryland, 2014
MA, Economics, University of Valencia, Spain, 2008
BA, Economics, University of Valencia, Spain, 2007
BA, Economics, University of Nantes, France, 2006
Awards and Recognition
- Best Paper at European School of New Institutional Economics 2014 (Cargèse, France) for “Fighting Against Democracy. Military Factions during the Second Republic and Spanish Civil War (1931-1939)”
- 2020 Earl J. Hamilton Prize awarded by the Asociación Española de Historia Económica (Spanish Economic History Association) to the best article published in a non-Spanish journal for the article “For a fistful of pesetas? The political economy of the army in a non-consolidated democracy: the Second Spanish Republic and Civil War (1931–9).”
- 2022. Presidential Teaching Excellence Award, Weber State University.
Hobbies
Alvaro is also an avid soccer fan both as player and as spectator. Being a lover of good soccer, he has no option but being a resolute Barcelona supporter.